Beeny Cliff
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
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March 1870 - March 1913
O the opal and ______ sapphire of that wandering western sea,
And the woman ______ high above with bright hair flapping free -
The ______ whom I loved so, and who loyally loved me.
______ pale mews plained below us, and the waves seemed ______ away
In a nether sky, engrossed in saying their ______ babbling say,
As we laughed light-heartedly aloft on that clear-sunned March day.
A little cloud then cloaked us, and ______ flew an irised rain,
And the Atlantic dyed its ______ with a dull misfeatured stain,
And then the sun ______ out again, and purples prinked the main.
- Still ______ all its chasmal beauty bulks old Beeny to the sky,
And shall she and I not go there once ______ now March is nigh,
And the sweet things said ______ that March say anew there by and by?
What ______ still in chasmal beauty looms that wild weird western shore,
The woman now is - elsewhere - whom the ______ pony bore,
And nor knows nor cares for Beeny, ______ will laugh there nevermore.